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Thought about bird’s proposal (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nomination

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'proposal' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'thought about bird's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'about' could be 'on' (as in a book 'on' a certain topic) and 'on' is found in the answer.
'bird' could be 'mina' (alternative spelling of myna) and 'mina' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'noti' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for nomination that I've seen before include "Putting forward (of a candidate)" , "Naming" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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